DISFIGURING THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE:
ANATOMICAL DISCOURSE AND ROBERT BURTONS
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
BY R. GRANT WILLIAMS
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.1
Burton scholarship has always recognized that The Anatomy of
Melanc

Subjective Religiosity and Depression
in the Transition to Adulthood
A. HENRY ELIASSEN
JOHN TAYLOR
DONALD A. LLOYD
Does being more religious make one less susceptible to depression? We consider the association between subjective
religiosity (religious sel

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Douglas Trevor
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John Donne and Scholarly
Melancholy
DOUGLAS TREVOR
Donne is in a sense a psychologist.
T. S. Eliot
Throughout his life, John Donnes prose and poetry are filled with
references to, as well as acco

CHAPTER I
Depression
D
epression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we
must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and
depression is the mechanism of that despair. When it comes, it
degrades one's self and ultimately eclipses the capaci

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HOPE AND DEPRESSION
SNYDER
HOPE AND DEPRESSION:
A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
C. R. SNYDER
The University of Kansas, Lawrence
It is suggested that balance is a fundamental and adaptive

Introduction
Before Prozac
The disease that has on several occasions nearly killed me does kill
tens of thousands of people every year: most are young, most die unnecessarily, and many are among the most imaginative and gifted that
we as a society have.1

Gidal / English Gloom and French Enlightenment
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MELANCHOLY: ENGLISH GLOOM
AND FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
IVIC
Eric Gidal
When French writers and travelers looked across the Channel in the eighteenth century, the chief characteristic they were likely to focu

Melancholy and the Therapeutic
Language of Moral Philosophy in
Seventeenth-Century Thought
Jeremy Schmidt
The concept of melancholy comprehended a wide range of characteristics
and conditions in seventeenth-century European culture, from the brooding
intr

Asymbolia and Self-Loss:
Narratives of Depression by Women
in Contemporary German Literature
Susan E. Gustafson
University of Rochester, NY
Contemporary writings by women of the new generation 1 revolve uncannily
often and obsessively around issues of iso

Science, Gender, and the Emergence
of Depression in American Psychiatry,
19521980
LAURA D. HIRSHBEIN*
ABSTRACT. Between the first (1952) and the third (1980) editions of
psychiatrys Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, depression
emerged

Int. J. Psychoanal. (2002) 83, 407
THE THREAD OF DEPRESSION THROUGHOUT
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF LEO TOLSTOY
ANNIE ANARGYROS-KLINGER, Paris
Tolstoy, the author of two masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, remains a
writer of genius. Yet, after writin

Acute Melancholia
Amy Hollywood
Harvard Divinity School
The inaugural lecture of the Elizabeth H. Monrad Chair in Christian Studies at
Harvard Divinity School, 2 March 2006
Before melancholy, gratitude. First to Elizabeth and Ernest Monrad, for their coun

Catch-22s of depression
Allen
Coping with the catch-22s of
depression: A guide for educating
patients
Jon G. Allen, PhD
The author developed a protocol for educating patients about
depression that focuses on the obstacles encountered in the course of
reco

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Listening to Chekhov
Listening to Chekhov:
Narrative Approaches to
Depression
Bradley Lewis
We live in an era of depression. According to the World Health
Organization, depression affects 121 million people across the globe; it
is the fourth leading co

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Tammy Clewell
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MOURNING BEYOND
MELANCHOLIA: FREUDS
PSYCHOANALYSIS OF LOSS
Freuds mourning theory has been criticized for assuming a model of
subjectivity based on a strongly bounded form of individuation. This model
informs Mourning and Melancho

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Is This Dame
Melancholy?
Equating Todays
Depression and Past
Melancholia
Jennifer Radden
Abstract: The theoretical implications of equating
the melancholic states of past eras with todays depression are explored. T

GLANNON / DEPRESSION AS A MINDBODY PROBLEM
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Depression as a
MindBody Problem
Walter Glannon
ABSTRACT: Major depression is a disorder of the mind
caused by dysfunction of both the body and the brain.
Because it is a psychiatric illness and psychiatry

THE PROBLEM OF EARLY MODERN
MELANCHOLY*
Surveying the world outside his study in Christ Church, Oxford
in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Burton diagnosed
an epidemic. Melancholy was now, he wrote, a disease so frequent . . . in these our daies,